"This is the year’s best audio/visual experience, no contest and its many visual wonders are too many to evoke here... Its pleasures are simple, its flaws minimal but its impact, majestic".
The Collider:
File this one away in the “win” column in the argument for using film over digital. The breathtaking imagery in director Ron Fricke and writer Mark Magidson’s trailer for Samsara paints a vivid moving picture of our varied and colorful world, captured in 70mm film. The documentary (the most recent in a filmography that features Baraka and Chronos) is a visual journey across 25 different countries over the course of five years that features vibrant scenes that bridge humanity and nature and is accompanied by a dynamic score. The word Samsara itself is Tibetan for “the ever-turning wheel of life,” something that Fricke attempts to capture through his unique visual style. Hit the jump to see the trailer and read the synopsis for Samsara, which opens in theaters this August.
